{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8709/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8709","id":"gutenberg_8709","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8709","summary":null,"tags":["Bible -- Illustrations","Category: Art","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"Produced by David Widger\n\n\n\n\n\n              THE DORE GALLERY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS\n\n                  Illustrated by Gustave Dore\n\n                          Volume 9.\n\n\n\nTHE BURIAL OF JESUS.\n\n\nWhen the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph,\nwho also himself was Jesus' disciple he went to Pilate, and begged the\nbody of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when\nJoseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid\nit in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled\na great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.\n\nAnd there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against\nthe sepulchre.--Matthew xxvii, 57-61\n\n\n\n\nTHE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHRE.\n\n\nIn the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of\nthe week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.\n\nAnd, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord\ndescended from, heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door,\nand sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment\nwhite as snow: and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as\ndead men.\n\nAnd the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know\nthat ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen,\nas he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and\ntell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and, behold, he goeth\nbefore you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.\n\nAnd they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and\ndid run to bring his disciples word.--Matthew xxviii, 1-8.\n\n\n\n\nTHE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS.\n\n\nAnd, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus\nwhich was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.\n\nAnd they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it\ncame to pass that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus\nhimself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were holden that\nthey should not know him.\n\nAnd he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye\nhave one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?\n\nAnd the one of them, whose, name was Cleopas, answering said unto him,\nArt thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things\nwhich are come to pass there in these days?\n\nAnd he said unto them, What things?\n\nAnd they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet\nmighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief\npriests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have\ncrucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have\nredeemed Israel: and beside all this, to-day is the third day since these\nthings were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us\nastonished, which were early at the sepulchre; and when they found not\nhis body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels,\nwhich said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went\nto the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him\nthey saw not.\n\nThen he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that\nthe prophets have spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things,\nand to enter into his glory?\n\nAnd beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in\nall the scriptures the things concerning himself.\n\nAnd they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as\nthough he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying,\nAbide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he\nwent in to tarry with them.\n\nAnd it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and\nblessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and\nthey knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.\n\nAnd they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he\ntalked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?\n\nAnd they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the\neleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord\nis risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.\n\nAnd they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of\nthem in breaking of bread.--Luke xxiv, 13-35.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ASCENSION.\n\n\nNow upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came\nunto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and\ncertain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the\nsepulchre. * * *\n\nAnd they remembered his words. And returned from the sepulchre, and told\nall these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. * * *\n\nAnd, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus,\nwhich was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked\ntogether of all these things which had happened. * * *\n\nAnd they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the\neleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord\nis risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things\nwere done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.\nAnd as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and\nsaith unto them, Peace be unto you. * * *\n\nAnd, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in\nthe city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.\n\nAnd he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and\nblessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted\nfrom them, and carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him, and\nreturned to Jerusalem with great joy. Luke xxiv, 1-2, 8-9, 13-14, 33-36,\n49-52.\n\nThe former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began\nboth to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that\nhe through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom\nhe had chosen: to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by\nmany infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of\nthe things pertaining to the kingdom of God: and, being assembled\ntogether with them, commanded them that they should not depart from\nJerusalem, but, wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye\nhave heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be\nbaptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.\n\nWhen they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord,\nwilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? And he said\nunto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the\nFather hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that\nthe Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both\nin Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part\nof the earth.\n\nAnd when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up:\nand a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked\nsteadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in\nwhite apparel.--Acts i, 1-10\n\n\n\n\nTHE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN.\n\n\nAnd Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles\namong the people.\n\nThen there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue\nof the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of\nCilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to\nresist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. Then they suborned\nmen, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses\nand against God. And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the\nscribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the\ncouncil. And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to\nspeak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: for we have\nheard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and\nshall change the customs which Moses delivered us.\n\nAnd all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face\nas it had been the face of an angel.\n\nThen said the high priest, Are these things so?\n\nAnd he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: [Stephen here makes his\ndefense, concluding with a terrible, denunciation of the Jews as being\nstiffnecked and persecutors of their prophets, and as betrayers and\nmurderers of Jesus Christ.]\n\nWhen they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they,\ngnashed on him with their teeth.\n\nBut he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven,\nand saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,\nand said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing\non the right hand of God.\n\nThen they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran\nupon him with one accord, and cast him out of, the city, and stoned him:\nand the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose\nname was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying,\nLord Jesus, receive my spirit.\n\nAnd he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin\nto their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.\n\nAnd Saul was consenting unto his death.--Acts vi, 8-15; vii, 1-2, 54-56;\nviii, 1.\n\n\n\n\nSAUL'S CONVERSION.\n\n\nAnd Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the\ndisciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him\nletters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way,\nwhether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.\n\nAnd as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined\nround about him a light from heaven: and he fell to the earth, and heard\na voice, saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he\nsaid, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou\npersecutest it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he\ntrembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And\nthe Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told\nthee what thou must do.\n\nAnd the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice,\nbut seeing no man.\n\nAnd Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no\nman: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he\nwas three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.\n\nAnd there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him\nsaid the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.\n\nAnd the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called\nStraight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of\nTarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, and hath seen in a vision a man named\nAnanias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his\nsight. Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how\nmuch evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath\nauthority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. But\nthe Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to\nbear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:\nfor I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.\n\nAnd Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his\nhands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto\nthee in the way as thou camest, hash sent me, that thou mightest receive\nthy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell\nfrom his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and\narose and was baptized. And when he had received meat, he was\nstrengthened.\n\nThen was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. And\nstraightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of\nGod.--Acts ix, 1-20.\n\n\n\n\nTHE DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER.\n\n\nNow about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex\ncertain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the\nsword.\n\nAnd because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take\nPeter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had\napprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four\nquarternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him\nforth to the people.\n\nPeter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing\nof the church unto God for him.\n\nAnd when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was\nsleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers\nbefore the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came\nupon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the\nside, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell\noff from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind\non thy sandals: And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment\nabout thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist\nnot that it was true which was done by the angel but thought he saw a\nvision. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto\nthe iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own\naccord and they went out and passed on through one street and forthwith\nthe angel departed from him.\n\nAnd when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that\nthe Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of\nHerod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.--Acts xii,\n1-11\n\n\n\n\nPAUL AT EPHESUS.\n\n\nAnd it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having\npassed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and finding certain\ndisciples, he said unto them, Have ye, received the Holy Ghost since ye\nbelieved? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether\nthere be any Holy Ghost. And he, said unto them, Unto what then were ye\nbaptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily\nbaptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that\nthey should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on\nChrist Jesus.\n\nWhen they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.\nAnd when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them;\nand they spake with tongues, and prophesied. And all the men were about\ntwelve.\n\nAnd he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three\nmonths, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of\nGod.\n\nBut when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that\nway before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the\ndisciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. And this\ncontinued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia\nheard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.\n\nAnd God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his\nbody were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases\ndeparted from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.\n\nThen certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over\nthem which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure\nyou by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva,\na Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit\nanswered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the\nman in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and\nprevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and\nwounded.\n\nAnd this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus;\nand fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.\nAnd many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many\nof them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and\nburned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found\nit fifty thousand pieces of silver.\n\nSo mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.--Acts xix, 1--20.\n\n\n\n\nPAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS.\n\n\nDo therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow\non them; them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with\nthem, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those\nthings, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that\nthou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.\n\nThen Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them\nentered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of\npurification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of\nthem.\n\nAnd when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia,\nwhen they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid\nhands on him, crying out, Men of Israel, help: this is the man, that\nteacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this\nplace: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted\nthis holy place. (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus\nan Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)\n\nAnd all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took\nPaul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.\nAnd as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain\nof the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar: who immediately took\nsoldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them and when they saw the\nchief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. Then the chief\ncaptain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two\nchains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. And some cried one\nthing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the\ncertainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.\nAnd when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the\nsoldiers for the violence of the people. For the multitude of the people\nfollowed after, crying, Away with him.\n\nAnd as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief\ncaptain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? Art not\nthou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest\nout into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? But Paul\nsaid, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen\nof no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.\n\nAnd when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned\nwith the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence,\nhe spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue.--Acts xxi, 23-40.\n\n\n\n\nPAUL'S SHIPWRECK.\n\n\nAnd while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat,\nsaying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued\nfasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat;\nfor this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the\nhead of any of you.\n\nAnd when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in\npresence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat. Then\nwere they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.\n\nAnd we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.\n\nAnd when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the\nwheat into the sea. And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they\ndiscovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded,\nif it were possible, to thrust in the ship. And when they had taken up\nthe anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the\nrudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward\nshore. And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship\naground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the\nhinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. And the soldiers'\ncounsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and\nescape. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their\npurpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves\nfirst into the sea, and get to land: and the rest, some on boards, and\nsome on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they\nescaped all safe to land.\n\nAnd when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called\nMelita.\n\nAnd the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a\nfire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because\nof the cold.--Acts xxvii, 33-44; xxviii, 1-2\n\n\n\n\nDEATH ON THE PALE HORSE.\n\n\nAnd when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth\nbeast say, Come and see.\n\nAnd I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was\nDeath, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the\nfourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with\ndeath, and with the beasts of the earth. Revelation vi, 7-8","title":"The Dor\u00e9 Bible Gallery, Volume 9","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":3915}